From darren at DarrenDuncan.net Sun Sep 3 23:37:32 2006
From: darren at DarrenDuncan.net (Darren Duncan)
Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2006 23:37:32 -0700
Subject: [VPM] Sept 5 - Recreational Computer Science Meeting
Message-ID:
You are invited at zero cost to attend the September 5th Recreational
Computer Science Society meeting, in 2 days.
RCSS will meet in its usual place and date (1st tuesday of the
month). It is 6:00PM, Tuesday September 5th. in ECS 660 on campus.
(Engineering Computer Science, new building next to the engineering
wing, see bottom left of C4 at http://www.uvic.ca/maps/2dmap.html).
The Recreational Science Society meeting for September is proceeding
as planned. Due to ongoing trouble with the Google Group, I am
sending this low-fidelity message and will try a different service
for the group's next meeting.
This month's agenda is looking really great. In no particular order,
here it is:
1) (Guest Faculty Speaker) Daniel German -- Problems of Image
Blending in Building Panoramas
2) (Personal Project) Angela Norton -- Visualizing Hierarchical Datasets
3) (Paper Review) Taras Glek -- Fault-Tolerant Computing
4) (Topic Overview) Ryan Nordman -- Recent Developments in Raytracing
5) (Algorithm Analysis) Peter van Hardenberg -- Scale Invariant
Feature Transforms (A Method for Matching Photos)
We look forward to seeing everyone on Tuesday, including (hopefully)
a few new faces.
-- Darren Duncan (original announcement by Peter van Hardenberg)
From darren at DarrenDuncan.net Tue Sep 5 23:33:57 2006
From: darren at DarrenDuncan.net (Darren Duncan)
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2006 23:33:57 -0700
Subject: [VPM] new Perl programmer job in Victoria
Message-ID:
All,
I thought I would mention this here, since in my impression it has
been rare that a local job posting as been specifically for a Perl
programmer, at least naming the language in the job title.
Posted with Viatec: Perl Programmer-Web Applications - Enquisite
Software Inc. - Sep 1, 2006
See: http://www.viatec.ca/human_job.php?operation=viewJob&jobID=1375
That said, I have seen several clues that suggest that Enquisite may
be a spin-off of Metamend, since that was the only other company I
saw in the past with a "Perl" titled job posting, and both companies
are at the same address, and their businesses look similar (search
engine stuff).
-- Darren Duncan
From Peter at PSDT.com Wed Sep 6 09:16:43 2006
From: Peter at PSDT.com (Peter Scott)
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2006 09:16:43 -0700
Subject: [VPM] new Perl programmer job in Victoria
In-Reply-To:
References:
Message-ID: <6.2.3.4.2.20060906091554.02988598@mail.webquarry.com>
At 11:33 PM 9/5/2006, Darren Duncan wrote:
>I thought I would mention this here, since in my impression it has
>been rare that a local job posting as been specifically for a Perl
>programmer, at least naming the language in the job title.
Wow, good spot, Darren.
--
Peter Scott
Pacific Systems Design Technologies
http://www.perldebugged.com/
http://www.perlmedic.com/
From Peter at PSDT.com Tue Sep 12 11:15:47 2006
From: Peter at PSDT.com (Peter Scott)
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 11:15:47 -0700
Subject: [VPM] Next meeting
Message-ID: <6.2.3.4.2.20060912111429.0298b430@mail.webquarry.com>
We've got a room for our next meeting next week; I propose to give a
preview of the talk I am going to give to the Pittsburgh Perl Mongers,
"How To Talk To Managers". That takes at most an hour. The rest of
the time those of us who went to the Open Source Conference could give
a retrospective; any other ideas?
--
Peter Scott
Pacific Systems Design Technologies
http://www.perldebugged.com/
http://www.perlmedic.com/
From darren at DarrenDuncan.net Tue Sep 12 23:47:05 2006
From: darren at DarrenDuncan.net (Darren Duncan)
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 23:47:05 -0700
Subject: [VPM] Next meeting
In-Reply-To: <6.2.3.4.2.20060912111429.0298b430@mail.webquarry.com>
References: <6.2.3.4.2.20060912111429.0298b430@mail.webquarry.com>
Message-ID:
At 11:15 AM -0700 9/12/06, Peter Scott wrote:
>We've got a room for our next meeting next week; I propose to give a
>preview of the talk I am going to give to the Pittsburgh Perl Mongers,
>"How To Talk To Managers". That takes at most an hour. The rest of
>the time those of us who went to the Open Source Conference could give
>a retrospective; any other ideas?
Your proposal sounds good to me. Make it so! (Also, I went to
OSCON, so have some sharable experience.) -- Darren Duncan
From Peter at PSDT.com Wed Sep 13 16:09:35 2006
From: Peter at PSDT.com (Peter Scott)
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 16:09:35 -0700
Subject: [VPM] Perl Mongers Meeting
Message-ID: <6.2.3.4.2.20060912104637.02869fa0@mail.webquarry.com>
Victoria.pm will meet at its regular date and time at 7:00 pm on
Tuesday, September 19, at UVic in ECS 660 (see
http://www.uvic.ca/buildings/ecs.html).
I will present a preview of my keynote talk to be given at the
Pittsburgh Perl Workshop (http://pghpw.org/) the following weekend:
"How To Talk To Managers." There will even be some Perl content. It
will be illustrated with many cute slides.
We will then recap and review the Open Source Conference from those of
us who were there, naturally covering the tenth Perl Conference therein.
(Courtesy copy to VLUG and VOSSOC members by permission of the list
managers. Victoria.pm's home page is .)
--
Peter Scott
Pacific Systems Design Technologies
http://www.perldebugged.com/
http://www.perlmedic.com/
From jeremygwa at hotmail.com Wed Sep 13 23:33:12 2006
From: jeremygwa at hotmail.com (Jer A)
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 23:33:12 -0700
Subject: [VPM] checksum hash questions
Message-ID:
hello all
I am a newbie in the following area:
these are not really perl questions, but I think some of you would have an
answer:)
can a file checksum hash, differ if a char is changed in a text file, even
though the length of the file/string is still the same?
how long does it take to create a checksum hash of a text file that is only
about 1KB?
what type of checksum hash would you recommend that meets speed and genuine
file-fingerprinting.
Thanks in advance for all your help.
Jeremy A.
From abez at abez.ca Wed Sep 13 23:48:46 2006
From: abez at abez.ca (abez)
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 02:48:46 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [VPM] checksum hash questions
In-Reply-To:
Message-ID:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHA256
Use SHA256 for your fingerprint, Bruce Shneider recommends it.
> can a file checksum hash, differ if a char is changed in a text file, even
> though the length of the file/string is still the same?
Your idea of what a string is obviously differs from mine. What
characters can be changed that are the same? You can always filter out
certain characters you don't like before you generate a hash.
abram
On Wed, 13 Sep 2006, Jer A wrote:
> hello all
>
> I am a newbie in the following area:
>
> these are not really perl questions, but I think some of you would have an
> answer:)
>
> can a file checksum hash, differ if a char is changed in a text file, even
> though the length of the file/string is still the same?
>
> how long does it take to create a checksum hash of a text file that is only
> about 1KB?
>
> what type of checksum hash would you recommend that meets speed and genuine
> file-fingerprinting.
>
> Thanks in advance for all your help.
>
> Jeremy A.
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Victoria-pm mailing list
> Victoria-pm at pm.org
> http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/victoria-pm
>
--
abez ------------------------------------------
http://www.abez.ca/ Abram Hindle (abez at abez.ca)
------------------------------------------ abez
From darren at DarrenDuncan.net Fri Sep 15 14:52:51 2006
From: darren at DarrenDuncan.net (Darren Duncan)
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 14:52:51 -0700
Subject: [VPM] Fwd: [Discuss] [job] Looking for Perl programmer/Linux admin
Message-ID:
For those of you not also on the vlug-discuss list, a forward. -- Darren Duncan
---------------------
From: "Paul Wagorn"
To:
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 14:16:14 -0700
Subject: [Discuss] [job] Looking for Perl programmer/Linux admin
Hi - Looking for someone to do programming/system admin work on an ongoing
basis.
If you or someone you know understands & has experience with the items
described below, please contact me. Looking for someone to work at home
full time or close to full time. Email or call me for more details or to
discuss. My home number is 598-1482.
Thanks!
Paul
--------------
Perl
- All facets of Perl coding
- Module install / maintainence
- Regular expressions
MySQL
Linux Systems Admin
- Linux and command line tools (awk , grep , sed etc ..)
- CRON Scripts
- System backup and restore using Tar and SSH
- Writing general support scripts / System Health Scripts
- Apache and modules
- mod_rewrite in particular
- secure certificates generation / installation
- virtual hosting configuration
- Installation / maintainence (OpenSSL , mod_ssl)
- Qmail
- Magicmail smtpd server
- SMTP Front
- configuration / maintenance for mutiple domains
- Multiple Instance management
- DNS
- BIND 9
- Installation / configuration for > 100 domains
Internet Security
- Firewall
- IPChains
- IPTables
- Realtime parsing and interpreting of Apache Logs
- Realtime parsing and interpreting of Qmail Logs
- Portforwarding via SSH
From Peter at PSDT.com Mon Sep 18 07:12:00 2006
From: Peter at PSDT.com (Peter Scott)
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 07:12:00 -0700
Subject: [VPM] Victoria Perl Mongers meeting tomorrow
Message-ID: <6.2.3.4.2.20060913132308.0296d488@mail.webquarry.com>
Victoria.pm will meet at its regular date and time at 7:00 pm tomorrow,
Tuesday, September 19, at UVic in ECS 660 (see
http://www.uvic.ca/buildings/ecs.html).
I will present a preview of my keynote talk to be given at the
Pittsburgh Perl Workshop (http://pghpw.org/) the following weekend:
"How To Talk To Managers." There will even be some Perl content. It
will be illustrated with many cute slides.
We will then recap and review the Open Source Conference from those of
us who were there, naturally covering the tenth Perl Conference therein.
(Courtesy copy to VLUG and VOSSOC members by permission of the list
managers. Victoria.pm's home page is .)
--
Peter Scott
Pacific Systems Design Technologies
http://www.perldebugged.com/
http://www.perlmedic.com/
From Peter at PSDT.com Thu Sep 28 11:37:19 2006
From: Peter at PSDT.com (Peter Scott)
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 11:37:19 -0700
Subject: [VPM] Nick Ing-Simmons
Message-ID: <6.2.3.4.2.20060928113328.0260bcd8@mail.webquarry.com>
I am sad to report that Nick Ing-Simmons, creator of Perk/Tk, has
passed away. See
http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/browse_thread/thread/8a09cfb5f178cfd4/a2dcfb10297ee255
.
--
Peter Scott
Pacific Systems Design Technologies
http://www.perldebugged.com/
http://www.perlmedic.com/